[B-Greek] Luke 5:3 APO THS GHS
Jonathan Robie
jwrobie at mindspring.com
Tue Jun 26 11:42:59 EDT 2007
EGRAPSEN ho George Somsel:
> I'm not sure what you intend by "taken alone." No phrase in any writing, whether in the scriptures or the Quran or Descartes, can be taken apart from its context. It is clear here that the 3rd sg usage refers to Jesus. When it says
>
> ἐμβὰς δὲ εἰς ἓν τῶν πλοίων, ὃ ἦν Σίμωνος, ἠρώτησεν αὐτὸν …
> EMBAS DE EIS hEN TWN PLOIWN, hO HN SIMWNOS, HRWTHSEN AUTON …
>
> The participle ἐμβὰς [EMBAS], being a nom sg, must refer to the subject of the verb ἠρώτησεν [HRWTHSEN] which continues to be Jesus so that there is no question of his remaining on the shore from which the boat was to pull out according to his request.
>
Yes, I know that - in fact, I think I said quite clearly that this is
not ambiguous in context, and I'm well aware that "a text without a
context is only a pretext."
But I'm not trying to understand the meaning of this phrase in context,
I'm trying to understand whether APO THS GHS could also mean "from
shore", and whether the phrase "HRWTHSEN AUTON APO THS GHS" could mean
"he said to him, from the shore ...", if the context were different. I
always mess up when I try to compose Greek texts, but let me try to
create such a context for the phrase:
EMBAS SIMWN EN HEN TWN PLOIWN,
ESTH DE iIHSOUS PARA THN LIMNHN
HRWTHSEN AUTON APO THS GHS EPANAGAGEIN OLIGON
In this context (corrected as needed to create real Greek ;->), would HRWTHSEN AUTON APO THS GHS be a meaningful phrase, or is there something besides the context that should have tipped me off?
Jonathan
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